Volume 1 Issue 3

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the cameras will outlast us insects with multi-faceted eyes everywhere (nanomachines that watch like we watch but without the waste and fake emotions)

and the lead-in was a show called “you” spy cams of hidden lives like wishbones pulled between fat greasy fingers

each episode follows a single individual

cut a woman says she’s fat cries in her ice cream but her eyes shine like diamonds and her lips are wet and sweet and there’s nothing plastic as far as the eye can see

cut a man in a dirty kitchen black garbage bag filled to spill and he sticks his dick in a vertical slit that drips spaghetti and cigarette ash cuts his cock on broken light bulbs and bleeds into used paper towels screaming yes yes we’re all fucking trash

and we’re insects multi-faceted outlasting the waste and the fake emotion and we cut

to a word from our sponsors

the crowd roars like lions the cameras watch like christians (and the emperor’s new clothes line the empty shelves)

Joe Quinn is a 34-year-old American poet. His collections, including his most recent the bride of appalachia, are available at lulu.com/spotlight/welcomehomeironlung. He can be followed on twitter: @joequinnpoetry or on Facebook at facebook.com/joequinnpoetry.

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Wordpool Press is a publisher of fiction and nonfiction books in both print and electronic form. We also publish short stories, poetry, and artwork in our online literary journal titled Digital Papercut. Wordpool Press aims to help talented new writers build their publishing history.